(Rose)
Lucky Nokaranlık experienced flying before sailing.
It was still a powerful new thing to experience.
The engine slowly brought the boat out of the harbour.
Until we caught a good wind. The patchwork sail opened under my hands, and the ship began speeding up.
Before you knew it, we were going at full speed, barely touching the ocean, skimming ahead.
Nokarlık didn’t feel too bad from the rhythm of the waves.
I was feeling good, wind in my hair and on my face.
And a few hours later maybe, the shore disappeared behind us. We were at sea.
I don’t know much regarding the Caribbean sea, and neither does Blu.
All we know is there are many islands and they’re generally lush. That’s about the extent of my knowledge. I don’t know any na regarding the Spanish conflicts that occurred on these waters centuries ago.
One thing is for sure. We’re not expecting to encounter any pirates today. Sharks maybe.
Over the following nights, it’s Blu more than I that gives the evening tales to Nokarlık.
Tales of so years ago, whilst she sailed over a gigantic snake, or bird, across another distant ocean.
What possibly was the biggest animal to ever live on Earth, and definitely by far the biggest one that ever flown in our worldly skies. Sanïssia the great pretty bird.
And Nokarlık’s mother masterpiece.
Blu surprised with how many tales she could imagine over this.
Easy to please, Nok listened with intense focus.
The night at sea, it’s sothing else. You can feel the waters. You feel them, moving as if almost alive, never really asleep.
It’s a little scary at first. But we got used to it.
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The winds twirled around us, temperantal.
It was a sporty work to maintain aim, playing with the sail accordingly.
Nokarlık had not much to do anwhile. She couldn’t focus on reading or writing while the ship kept moving all over. She still practiced fencing occasionally with Blu instead of , while I manoeuvred the ship.
Blu didn’t kill her. The fear did cross my mind, for I’ve seen what a sword in her hands can do.
The day routine mostly involved naps for whom wasn’t captain, before I knew it.
There isn’t much to do on a small boat like this.
We took the working computer and its accessories with us, but it won’t have its electrical nutrition here. So it’s dormant now.
As the days went by with nothing but the sea, Nokarlık quickly grew bored. I can’t bla her.
Given it was literally the only job to do, I began teaching Nok how to sail.
We began doing it in duo, as she learnt the principles and thods.
It’s not very complex, so it took her less than a day to have a reasonable hold onto the main ropes.
It took a few more days until she could shift direction flawlessly and maintain course when the wind shifted abruptly.
Soon, I could admire her standing proud and handling the machine rather well.
She’s beautiful.
Blu and I finished crafting fishing lines and net. And we reached the first island in sight before we could use them.
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I thought of making a rudintary anchor, but my child is resourceful.
She grew, and dragged the ship ashore. Easy. Funny and odd, but easy.
We were next to a sharp set of cliffs, that held collapsed ruins of a town.
Half was in the reef, the other a hundred tres above. Sharp cliffs.
We climbed the fields, crossed the silent but sunny woods, and reached the other half of the town.
It was a city like many others in most ways.
But it was a new world to my daughter.
I barely managed to prevent her from running ahead blind and naïve.
We looked around carefully. We climbed to the top of the hill that dominated the island.
Everything appeared peaceful and normal. The ruins were old. Nothing stood out from where we were.
Nok couldn’t wait anymore, pulling on my sleeve, squirming around. Had she been on leach, she would have begun gnawing on it.
R - Ok, go.
N - Yahaa!
She yelled and ran at full speed ahead. I was smiling behind. Blu chuckled, thinking she’s indeed my child; I could tell.
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We set so fishing equipnt by another shore and spent the rest of that day venturing through the old town.
Nok found a luxurious hotel apartnt with a brazier in its middle. We brought so fuel and chopped wood, to make our camp there around a big fire.
The bed was huge and most, like a giant sponge. We covered it with plastics we found around, then blankets, and then ourselves as the fire slowly grew dimr.
I had nice dreams.
I woke up to Nok’s sunny smile. It felt even better.
She showed proudly the treasures she had found before I woke up.
N - Like Nue!
She held a mummified human skull, or rather head since the jaw was still there.
I swallowed, and congratulated my giant cat of a daughter. It felt a little conflicting to , to see her holding proudly a corpse’s head. But ti and life are changing.
Today we will study again a little anatomy and biology.
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